The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room.
There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at – PloshchadRevolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.
The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.
And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station – Park Pobedy – is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.
During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city’s biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.
On the Moscow metro tour, you will go underground and visit 8 most interesting stations. You will see the oldest stations dated back in 1935 and new ones that were opened several years ago.
Our guide will tell you exciting stories and fun facts: where is the first government line (Metro 2); who, in addition to people, inhabits the Moscow metro; how deep is the metro system?
